These practices have been going on for centuries and are primarily inflicted upon young girls and women. For those unfamiliar with these terms and practices, we'll be shedding light on what they ...

The practice of FGM is painful, harmful and incredibly dangerous in any form, but the most severe and debilitating type – infibulation – is so shocking, it's difficult to even read about. I travelled ...

Because some amorous Frenchman was also a tattletale, Henri Littière, baker & husband, was last week haled before a black-gowned judge of the Paris Correctional Court. A student of medieval life, ...

This article arose from writing about linguistic aspects of taboo in work co-authored with Kate Burridge: "Euphemism and Dysphemism: Language Used as Shield and Weapon" Oxford UP, 1991 and "Forbidden ...

«Kimbidalé», d’Emmanuelle Labeau, est un documentaire, très dur par nature, mais traité avec dignité et optimisme, sur l’excision et l’infibulation en Ethiopie. Un combat initié par des femmes Afar ...

THIS work is the first volume of a series which the author is undertaking in connexion with some of the more obscure customs of antiquity and the Middle Ages related to the sexual life of man. The ...